Meetings can be a trap

Unless a person is working for a reputed company, meeting new people can be very risky, especially if the person called for a meeting is a single woman coming to the meeting alone. Though most people recommend that the meeting be held at a public place , so that he or she can easily escape, there is always some risk in meeting people socially and professionally for the first time
In some cases, the meeting can be used to loot or steal money and other items from a gullible person
In other cases, the person may be attacked at the meeting, with or without weapons, especially when there is disagreement or dispute on any issue.
For example many nigerian fraudsters called their gullible victims to nigeria for a meeting, promising money, and put them in jail with the help of the local police . The victims then had to pay a large ransom to be freed from nigerian jails according to media reports
There have been instances when people have been kidnapped after attending meetings, especially if people are aware that the kidnap victim has plenty of money